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JARROD Wallace will try to keep an unusual try-scoring streak going while young front rower Joe Ofahengaue gets the chance he has been waiting for against the Sea Eagles on Saturday.

Prop Wallace has scored in the Broncos’ past two matches and was today named by coach Wayne Bennett to start against the Sea Eagles in Gosford.

He will cover the loss of Adam Blair to suspension, who took a two-match ban for a shoulder charge this morning.

Wallace has now played 40 NRL games – he only scored twice in his first 38 matches - as he continues his front row apprenticeship.

But this will be just the fourth time he has started a match in the run-on side.

The last time he started was in the Broncos’ victory over the Newcastle Knights back in May, a game the Broncos went into with their six State of Origin players unavailable.

That game was also teenager Ofahengaue’s one and only start for the Broncos, and the last time he played in the NRL.

After making his debut for the Broncos in Round Two of this year, the 19-year-old prop has only played five NRL games – the first four of them from the bench – while spending time in both the Under 20s and Queensland Cup.

However Blair’s suspension is the unlucky break Ofahengaue has been waiting for.

In backline news, Jack Reed returns in the centres from his own one-week suspension.

Reed, in hot form before his enforced break, will resume his left-side partnership with five-eighth Anthony Milford.

Jordan Kahu moves out to the wing, with utility Corey Oates going back to the bench where Dale Copley was selected as 18th man.

BRONCOS NRL TEAM

1. Darius Boyd

2. Lachlan Maranta

3. Jack Reed

4. Justin Hodges (c)

5. Jordan Kahu

6. Anthony Milford

7. Ben Hunt

8. Sam Thaiday

9. Andrew McCullough

10. Jarrod Wallace

11. Alex Glenn

12. Matt Gillett

13. Corey Parker

Interchange:

14. Joe Ofahengaue

15. Mitchell Dodds

16. Corey Oates

17. Kodi Nikorima

18. Dale Copley

Coach: Wayne Bennett

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